We do not know whether it is our country’s good luck or bad luck that marijuana has medical uses (George Will, “Medical Marijuana,” Staten Island Advance, Nov. 30).

It is alarming to know that many of the new customers of “prescription” marijuana are college students. It is encouraging to know that Colorado’s attorney general John Suthers is trying to save his state from “pot.”

Perhaps many of Americans may have forgotten that in the last century, there was Prohibition of wine and liquor. For about 40 to 50 years, three or four presidents of the United States were in favor of Prohibition. (Forgotten history of America?)

If you ask me to vote, I will vote for prohibition of alcohol, rather than marijuana. How many die on our roads due to DWI? I have intuition that alcohol causes cancer and birth defects. Warning is given mostly to women, as if all men are always gentlemen! I feel as if gentlemen are sent away to die. (Excuse me.)

In the future, America will require some bold presidents to take hard decisions.